People
We are leading experts in our fields and have a wide range of specialised interests in business analytics, operations, supply chain management and logistics, extractive industries and sustainability. We invite contact from prospective postgraduate research students.
Meet the team
Head of Department
Professor James Aitken
Professor in Operations Management and Head of Department
Academic staff
Dr Rosie Cole
Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Supply Chain Management
Dr Karen Dennis
Senior Teaching Fellow in Operations Management
Dr Tillal Eldabi
Senior Lecturer in Business Analytics
Professor Ali Emrouznejad
Professor and Chair in Business Analytics
Dr Masoud Fakhimi
Lecturer in Operational Research
Dr Colin Fu
Senior Teaching Fellow in Business Analytics, Programme Director MSc Business Analytics
Dr Wolfgang Garn
Senior Lecturer in Analytics
Dr Vikas Grover
Senior Teaching Fellow in Management Information Systems
Dr Andrew Hill
Lecturer in Analytics
Professor Gavin Hilson
Professor and Chair of Sustainability in Business
Dr Yanfei Hu
Lecturer in Sustainable Enterprise
Dr Vahid Mirza Beiki
Lecturer B (Assistant Professor) in Operations Management
Dr Philip Murray
Senior Teaching Fellow Operations Management Programme Director BSc Business Management
Dr Abhijit Sengupta
Reader in Business Analytics
Deji Sotunde
Senior Teaching Fellow in Project Management
Dr Mahdi Tavalaei
Lecturer in Business Transformation
Dr Christopher Turner
Lecturer in Business Analytics
Professor Yu Xiong
Chair of Business Analytics; Associate Dean International; Director of Surrey Centre for Innovation and Commercialization(SCIC)
Visiting staff
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Chris Ibbott | Visiting Professor |
| Linghuan Li | Visiting Researcher |
| John Owen | Visiting Researcher |
| Hong Wang | Visiting Researcher |
Postgraduate research students
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Athary Alwasel | Postgraduate Research Student |
| Estrela Antonio | Postgraduate Research Student |
| Daniel Boos | Postgraduate Research Student |
| Eleanor Mill | Postgraduate Research Student |
| Mohammad Parhizkar | Postgraduate Research Student |
| Naveed Akhtar Qureshi | Postgraduate Research Student |
| Titus Sauerwein | Postgraduate Research Student |
| Oludayo Taiwo | Postgraduate Research Student |
| Madeline Young | Postgraduate Research Student |
| Jing Yu | Postgraduate Research Student |